New Delhi, January 8
Sensing that the overall mood in the country on the issue of terrorism was against Islamabad, the Samajwadi Party, an ally of the UPA regime, today gave a virtual ultimatum to the government to take “action” against Pakistan within five days or it would have to review its support.
Complaining that the ruling UPA was treating it like an “outsider” on the issue of dealing with Pakistan, the SP said it was under “tremendous pressure” from its cadres as the government was not doing anything against the neighbouring country despite the Mumbai attacks.
The party’s parliamentary board meeting here was of the view that India needed to take strong action against Pakistan.
“The meeting criticised the government for failing to take any concrete action against Pakistan in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks,” SP general secretary Amar Singh told a press conference.
“In this light we have decided to give it five days’ time to take action against Pakistan, otherwise we will review our support to the government in a working committee meeting of our party, which would be called after January 14,” he said.
Amar Singh also condemned the Israeli raids in Gaza and called for an immediate end to hostilities in West Asia. He said he also proposed to soon convene a meeting of the Arab envoys in India.
He said he and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav would visit Libya later this month at the invitation of Libyan leader Gaddafi.
